The Alexis family’s home was in the 200 block of Main Street, Blakely, for more than 100 years. Now, the same house is in the 1700 block. Eric and Joan Alexis are among hundreds of property owners and residents in Blakely who recently received letters not
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Lackawanna County already has its first announced candidate for county commissioner in the 2019 primary election. Businessman Christopher Chermak officially kicked off his candidacy for a Republican nomination for commissioner with a fundraising event Tue
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A 24-year-old man who admitted to looking at child pornography while he was a student at Marywood University will spend between 11 and 23 months in Lackawanna County Prison. Matthew Staats appeared before President Judge Michael J. Barrasse for sentencing
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Late Tuesday morning at George Bancroft Elementary School, giggling children hopped, skipped and jumped in an upstairs room. An American flag built from construction paper framed the scene and set a tone for solemn activities to come. Jimmy Reddington wal
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84 years ago, the notorious bandit couple Bonnie & Clyde were killed by police who were trying to stop them near Sailes, Louisiana.. In their time together Bonnie and Clyde are believed to have committed 13 murders and numerous robberies and burglaries according to the FBI’s Famous Cases and Criminal website..
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May 23, 1968 Mayor says some SRA money is not subject to an audit Scranton Mayor James Walsh announced that a portion of money supplied to city by the Scranton Redevelopment Authority was not subject to an audit. The accounting firm hired by the city to c
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Penn State researchers think they might be able to solve, or at least control, the invasion of stink bugs — those shield-shaped invaders from the Far East that seemingly have become permanent residents in Southwestern Pennsylvania. An ally in nature could
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SCRANTON — Lackawanna County District Attorney Mark Powell will seek the death penalty for one of the three people charged with the murder last month of Nina Gatto, a confidential informant who worked for his office.
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SCRANTON — Three schools in Scranton are dismissing their students early today because of a water main break in the city, the district said. Robert Morris Elementary School will begin dismissing at 12:30 p.m. Neil Armstrong Elementary School began dismiss
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OLD FORGE — Nearly 16 months after Old Forge restaurateur Robert Baron disappeared, police activity in the borough Wednesday suggests a wider probe. Lackawanna County detectives and Old Forge police returned to Ghigiarelli’s restaurant to do some “additio
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JESSUP — A man is in custody after leading borough police on a chase and punching an officer in the face Wednesday night. Borough police responded to the area around the basketball courts near Jessup Memorial Field at about 9 p.m. for the report of a knif
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SCRANTON — People can responsibly discard their unused or expired medicine during a drug take-back event Tuesday at the Prescription Center in downtown Scranton. Take-back events such as this one help patients clean out their medicine cabinets and safely
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LENOX TWP. — A wood burning stove is believed to be the cause of a fatal fire earlier this week in Susquehanna County, but the damage is so extensive to the mobile home engulfed that is tough to tell for sure, state police at Dunmore said. The body of a m
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DUNMORE — Two people were taken to area hospitals for symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning after a leak Tuesday at VCA Dunmore Animal Hospital, borough Fire Chief Chris DeNaples said Wednesday. The symptoms displayed by the two hospital employees, whom t
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DICKSON CITY — The left lane of Business Route 6 west, across from the Viewmont Mall heading toward Scranton, will be closed until late this afternoon for repairs from a collapsed drainage pipe, state Department of Transportation spokesman James May said.
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MEM owners await sentencing

EASTON - Two Lackawanna County businessmen will not be sentenced today as scheduled in Northampton County for stealing $832,460 from a Lehigh Valley town stemming from a failed business deal involving their now-defunct streetlight privatization firm.

The sentencings of P.J. McLaine, 66, of Elmhurst Twp., and Robert J. Kearns, 49, of Scranton, were continued to April 12.

A Northampton County jury convicted them in January of felony theft for failing to purchase the streetlights of Bethlehem Twp. from PPL in 2007 and pocketing the taxpayer money. The men owned Dunmore-based Municipal Energy Managers, which did business with several municipalities.

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